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title: Although Mali has enjoyed reasonably good inter-ethnic relationships… — Mali · tree and pragmatics
description: Although Mali has enjoyed reasonably good inter-ethnic relationships based on a long history of coexistence, some hereditary servitude and bondage relationship exist, as well as ethnic tension between settled Songhai and nomadic Tuaregs of the north. Who acts: good ethnic relationships. A sentence o
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# Mali, sentence 385

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From Wikipedia, [«Mali»](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mali), revision of the 2026-09-01 dump, [CC BY-SA 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/). The trees and pragmatics of these pages, Mova's parse of that text, are CC BY-SA 4.0 too.

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Although Mali has enjoyed reasonably good inter-ethnic relationships based on a long history of coexistence, some hereditary servitude and bondage relationship exist, as well as ethnic tension between settled Songhai and nomadic Tuaregs of the north.

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**Who acts:** good ethnic relationships · **What happens:** enjoy, base, exist, settle · **To what, where:** Mali, good ethnic relationships, long history, Songhai

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This is a sentence of the English Wikipedia article «Mali». The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (good ethnic relationships), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**Mova's own parse.** This tree may be wrong. The article's note marks are left out of the parse.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = wikipedia:Mali:385
# text = Although Mali has enjoyed reasonably good inter-ethnic relationships based on a long history of coexistence, some hereditary servitude and bondage relationship exist, as well as ethnic tension between settled Songhai and nomadic Tuaregs of the north.
1	Although	although	SCONJ	IN	_	4	mark	_	_
2	Mali	Mali	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nsubj:pass	_	_
3	has	have	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
4	enjoyed	enjoy	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	33	advcl	_	_
5	reasonably	reasonably	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
6	good	good	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
7	inter	inter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	ethnic	ethnic	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	relationships	relationship	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	25	nsubj	_	_
11	based	base	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	10	acl	_	_
12	on	on	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
13	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
14	long	long	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	history	history	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	_
16	of	of	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
17	coexistence	coexistence	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
19	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	21	det	_	_
20	hereditary	hereditary	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
21	servitude	servitude	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	conj	_	_
22	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
23	bondage	bondage	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	compound	_	_
24	relationship	relationship	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	conj	_	_
25	exist	exist	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	33	punct	_	_
27	as	as	ADV	RB	ExtPos=CCONJ	33	cc	_	_
28	well	well	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	27	fixed	_	_
29	as	as	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
30	ethnic	ethnic	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	31	amod	_	_
31	tension	tension	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	obl	_	_
32	between	between	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
33	settled	settle	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
34	Songhai	Songhai	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	33	obj	_	_
35	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	37	cc	_	_
36	nomadic	nomadic	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	37	amod	_	_
37	Tuaregs	tuareg	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	34	conj	_	_
38	of	of	ADP	IN	_	40	case	_	_
39	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	40	det	_	_
40	north	north	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	37	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
41	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	33	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **enjoy** | present · perfect · passive |  | Mali |  |  |  |  | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Stimulus |
| 2 | **base** | participle |  | good ethnic relationships *not said here* |  | a long history of coexistence and some hereditary servitude and bondage relationship |  |  | vn base-97.1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent on history=Source |
| 3 | **exist** | present | good ethnic relationships |  |  |  |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **settle** | participle |  | Songhai and nomadic Tuaregs of the north |  |  |  | as ethnic tension | vn odge-46-1 «NP V ADV»: agent=Theme songhai=Location |

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One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.

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**Text:** the English Wikipedia, «Mali», revision of the 2026-09-01 dump, CC BY-SA 4.0. **Tree:** Mova's own parse, CC BY-SA 4.0 as the text is. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), the article read in order, CC BY-SA 4.0.

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